DRAGO

International publishing houseof contemporary art

International publishing house of contemporary art

Wild at Heart

Miss Van

“Miss Van continues to bring us her unique and unbridled vision, shaping the iconography of the modern femme fatale." -Alexandra Mazzanti

€29

Specifications

ISBN: 978-88-88493-93-0

Dimensions: 31 x 23 x 2 cm

Author: Miss Van

Format: ...

Pages: 56

Date of publication: 2012

Language: ...

Look inside

About the book

“Miss Van continues to bring us her unique and unbridled vision, shaping the iconography of the modern femme fatale. In her own inimitable style, she is once again the romantic tamer and sassy ballerina of the surreal circus that is the art of our times.” Alexandra Mazzanti
Wild at Heart is a beautiful 60 page catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Dorothy Circus Galley by renowned artist, Miss Van. The book presents the artist’s latest paintings as well as a series of collaborations with the great Dan Quintana, a talented and imaginative painter from Los Angeles. Interspersed throughout these iconic works is a collection of photos that...“Miss Van continues to bring us her unique and unbridled vision, shaping the iconography of the modern femme fatale. In her own inimitable style, she is once again the romantic tamer and sassy ballerina of the surreal circus that is the art of our times.” Alexandra Mazzanti
Wild at Heart is a beautiful 60 page catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Dorothy Circus Galley by renowned artist, Miss Van. The book presents the artist’s latest paintings as well as a series of collaborations with the great Dan Quintana, a talented and imaginative painter from Los Angeles. Interspersed throughout these iconic works is a collection of photos that capture her fascinating creative tour along the west coast of the USA.
Miss Van started wall-painting at the age of 20, in 1993, initiating the feminine movement in Street Art. Since then, the artist has travelled the world painting her instantly recognizable women on the streets, as well as on canvas. She has exhibited extensively for decades worldwide in Europe, USA and Asia.

About the author

Miss Van started wall-painting at the age of 20, in 1993, initiating the feminine movement in Street Art. She originated from Toulouse, France and has spent most of her artistic life in Barcelona, Spain.
Miss Van has travelled the world painting her instantly recognizable women on the streets, as well as on canvas. Her overtly...Miss Van started wall-painting at the age of 20, in 1993, initiating the feminine movement in Street Art. She originated from Toulouse, France and has spent most of her artistic life in Barcelona, Spain.
Miss Van has travelled the world painting her instantly recognizable women on the streets, as well as on canvas. Her overtly feminine street art has been a breath of fresh air in a traditionally masculine movement of urban art and paved the way for many contemporaries. Now her infamous sultry female characters, known as her ‘Poupes’, are seen on the streets and in galleries alike all over the world. From these pouting, sulky girls emerges a certain sensuality and disconcerting eroticism that is frank and unabashed. Their thoughts are palpable and the paintings become real in both flesh and spirit. Miss Van creates her characters with an innovative spirit.
The artist takes pleasure in playing with ambiguities, her dolls are childlike women that are equally angelic and devilish. They have a rare appeal that transcends gender – an appeal that also extends to the work that she shows in galleries. Over the years, Miss Van’s characters have continued to evolve. They have become less cute and more dangerously alluring, edgier – their sexy aura made all the more complex by their increasingly ambiguous facial expressions. The more she has moved into gallery work and can work with the nuances of more fragile media than the streets allow (pencil, for one), her characters have grown even more sensitive, subtle, and delicately rendered.
She has had her work displayed in galleries all over the world, some of her most recent exhibitions took place at the Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris and the 18 Gallery in Shanghai. She has exhibited extensively for decades in Europe, USA and Asia. Miss Van’s recent artistic pursuits have taken her to Los Angeles, Miami, Spain and Brazil, which hallmarks a recent return to street art, after several years spent solely painting in the studio, charging her new works with increased depth, emotion and an elevated romantic darkness and delicacy.